Advanced doskey macro writing

[noprogrammer]

Hi,

I started using a dedicated cmdinit.cmd file for my doskey macros (Windows 7x64).
Macros like

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alias=doskey /macros $Bsort

work fine.

I've added one macro recently that just doesn't work as expected:

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doskey mac=For /f "tokens$Q4 delims$Q " %%# In ('getmac/V $E$B findstr/I "lan"') Do (echo LAN: %%#)

Executing the macro, I'll receive a message that the "|" can't be processed at that position.

The part after the = sign is valid, i.e.

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For /f "tokens=4 delims= " %%# In ('getmac/V ^| findstr/I "lan"') Do (echo LAN: %%#)

with just the special chars =, ^, | replaced with their doskey substitutes $Q, $E, $B, but it still won't work...

Did I forget anything?

[aGerman]

I'm not quite certain where you found the characters $Q and $E
See TechNet Library

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doskey mac=For /f "tokens=4 delims= " %# In ('getmac/V ^^$B findstr/I "lan"') Do (echo LAN: %#)

Regards
aGerman

[noprogrammer]

Thank you, "^^$B" works as expected.